Open Mainframe Project TAC Meeting - September 25, 2025
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Conference call details
Meetings are hosted on the LFX Meeting Management platform. More details on how to register are at https://tac.openmainframeproject.org/meetings.
Meeting Recording
Attendance
Voting Member Attendance
- Andrea Orth - GenevaERS Representative
- Sean Grady - Zowe Representative
- Mark Bylok - COBOL Programming Course Representative
- Lauren Valenti - Open Mainframe Education Representative
Quorum Not Achieved.
Voting Members Not in Attendance
- Gregory MacKinnon - Broadcom Corporation
- Giancarlo Frix - Rocket Software
- Phil Tully - Citi
- Mike Friesenegger - Feilong Representative
- Joe Bostian - International Business Machines Corporation
Other attendees
- Tom Slanda, The Linux Foundation
- John Mertic, The Linux Foundation
- Christopher Robinson, The Linux Foundation
- Michael MacIsaac, z/VM Community Tools
- Misty Decker, Kyndryl
- Donna Hudi, Phoenix Software
- Jeff Brown, EMMA
- Daniel Horak, Red Hat, Inc.
- Saifur-Rahman Yusuf
Agenda
- Mainframe Modernization Working Group Annual Review [#529]
- Presentation from @SecurityCRob on leveraging OpenSSF for Open Mainframe Project [#904]
- Discuss interests in creating a Security WG [#541]
- Mainframe infrastructure coming online status [#596]
Notes
General Updates
Mainframe Modernization Working Group Annual Review
Misty Decker presented the annual review for the Mainframe Modernization Working Group.
Presentation from @SecurityCRob on leveraging OpenSSF for Open Mainframe Project
Christopher Robinson spoke on the latest topics from the OpenSSF project, including CRA preparation and the OSPS Baseline.